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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Granular breakdown of data ingested from Infrastructure

There is evidence of data ingestion at a general level, but it is not possible to discriminate which host, metric or application is generating the highest consumption. This request goes in two ways:1. To have a report or dashboard that shows how t...
about 2 hours ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Submitted

Planning and Apptio BI permissions to be independent

Would like the ability to add users to Apptio BI to view planning data via the reports but not give them to have access to planning. It seems unnecessary to add a bunch of users to planning and bog down the system when they just need to view repor...
about 2 hours ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Submitted

Make user access granting process more straightforward

The process required for gaining access to Cloudability for the first time is overly complex, not intuitive and not what one would expect from a SaaS tool from a user perspective. In order to gain fully-fledged access, including to views permittin...
about 3 hours ago in Cloudability / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Natvie Prometheus support

Instana supports Prometheus in a customised way to transfer and work with Prometheus metrics. Basically, Prometheus metrics can be collected and transferred to Instana. But core features like Metrics Labels do not work with the Instana backend in ...
about 9 hours ago in Instana / Metric Store 0 Submitted

Request to Add a description Feild for View option

We observed that for the VIEWS we are unable to have a description field where we can update details of what is the purpose of the view – We set up a lot of views in our environment and this would be useful for us to remember the reason and/or del...
about 10 hours ago in Cloudability / Views 0 Submitted

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration

Ability to create tickets for RI Recommendations (Similar to rightsizing) - SNOW Integration
about 14 hours ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Submitted

Ability to select tags to consider in generating anomalies

Currently the anomaly detection works based on the account, service name, usage family and few tags which cloudability assumes which has highest coverage.Issue with this:Because it doesn't let users to select which tags to consider when generating...
about 16 hours ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Under review

Add support of SLES15 on zLinux for Apache(IHS) tracing, to suppport Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring

We want to use Auto Instrumentation of End User Monitoring, through Apache HTTPd tracing module. Now our IBM HTTP Server v9 is running on SLES 15 on zLinux. Please provide the support of SLES15 on zLinux. Now we only support SLES 12 on x86-64 arch...
about 17 hours ago in Instana / Real User Monitoring 0 Submitted

Report uploader service improvements to update workspace

As a user who loads data from the report surface, I'd like to be able to update my workspace on the report surface in order recognize data sets that my colleagues, who are also data loaders, have entered into the system much as you can in TBM Stud...
1 day ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 0 Submitted

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.

Need an option to increase polling interval for built-in events such as Ping which we are monitoring using synthetic check.
1 day ago in Instana / IBM i 0 Submitted